What it's Like to Work on Open Source
summary
Shows live maintenance on a Rust library with VS Code and rust-analyzer, using git, GitHub, cargo test and cargo publish. Notes surprising scale: about 5,500 contributors to Rust and thousands of personal commits, and a library with ~eighteen million downloads. Replaces a macro with generated code to cut compile time, verifies with tests that pass locally, merges the PR, then hits a publish blocker (missing metadata) so the release attempt stalls.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 6:15Overview of the Tools That I Use
- 7:17Visual Studio Code
- 8:22Vim
- 15:42Reviewing Pull Requests
- 16:04Having Meetings
- 16:55Triaging Issues
- 18:35How To Be an Open Source Gardener
- 19:13What Are the Benefits of Doing Open Source Projects
- 22:03Do Most People Who Do Open Source Have a Full-Time Day Job
- 28:35Rust Package Manager
- 39:06Triage Workflow
